UNITED STATES v. HANDY

No. 12853.

176 F.2d 491 (1949)

UNITED STATES ex rel. MOBLEY v. HANDY, Commanding Officer. Fort Sam Houston.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

August 2, 1949.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ben F. Foster, San Antonio, Tex., William C. Davis, San Antonio, Tex., R. G. Harris, San Antonio, Tex., for appellant.

Henry W. Moursund, U. S. Atty., San Antonio, Tex., Joel W. Westbrook, Asst. U. S. Atty., San Antonio, Tex., for appellee.

Before HUTCHESON, SIBLEY, and WALLER, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM.

Setting out frankly and with detailed particularity, the circumstances of his arrest and detention by the military, appellant, relator below, sought release on habeas corpus.1

The respondent, in his return, with equal frankness, particularity and detail, showed: that relator had been arrested as charged; that he had been restricted to the geographical limits of the post by direction of the commanding general; that the...

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